At a Victorian Ball a few years ago someone's daughter wore an actual antique 1860's dress, and all my friends and I could think of was what if it's "arsenic" green! We warned the family not to wear it again just in case....
Katy On 3/18/06, Bjarne og Leif Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not a reply to the previous mail about books, but the head`er made me think > about a story i heard about poison dyes. > In about 1840ies i heard there was a new invention with a very bright green > colour. They made wall hangings with this dyed silks and also it became a > very popular colour for fashionable ball dresses. But they didnt realise > that it was a very poisonable dye. The skin would consume the poison. > Have anybody other heard this? > It was a story i heard at Gammel Estrup where they have a room with silk > tapestries in this collour. > > Bjarne > > > > > Leif og Bjarne Drews > www.my-drewscostumes.dk > > http://home0.inet.tele.dk/drewscph/ > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
